From the Bones Out

by Marisa de los Santos

Book Overview

Marisa de los Santos often situates her poems in the rich, vividly evoked landscapes of Virginia and Texas as well as her father's homeland, the Philippines, but their true territory is the body itself, particularly the female body. Throughout her work there is a sharp longing for a life of the senses, of "pure corpus." In the words of the poem "Women Watching Basketball," there is the Whitmanian desire "to declare Divine is the flesh! and for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570033234
• ISBN13: 9781570033230
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 79 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.5"